Our Staff

Eleni is a political strategist and public opinion expert. She oversees the organization’s wide range of communications research, from polling and focus groups to media coverage and linguistic analysis . In her role, she provides strategic consultation on communications and research projects for numerous social justice leaders and groups across the country; creates and supports coalitions of nonprofits to increase the effectiveness of their communications campaigns and build public support for social justice; and designs and authors public opinion and media research studies and translates their findings to communications strategy for a large range of issues including immigration, racial and gender equality, economic opportunity, and human rights. Eleni works on media outreach on a project basis, does extensive public speaking, and writes regularly on public opinion trends. She is a regulal speaker at the International Visitor Leadership Program of the United States Department of State and has spoken in front of elected officials and political, media, and business leaders from around the world. She is an elected member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Public Opinion Research serving as Communications Chair (2013-2015).

Eva-Marie Malone coordinates The Opportunity Agenda’s involvement in the growth of a collaborative communications and field strategy among domestic civil rights and housing organizations seeking to promote fair housing, equitable land use, community development, and regional equity with the goal of reframing the debate on Home Opportunity issues, moving public policy and popular discourse, and improving the lives of millions of Americans. She also develops and implements the organization’s communications strategy on Economic Opportunity.

Ross has provided strategic development consulting to a wide variety of New York non-profits, including Northside Center for Child Development, Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA), and Issue Project Room.  His background in advocacy and strategic communications includes work on campaign finance reform, young voter turnout, and a number of state and local electoral campaigns in San Francisco and Wisconsin.  

As an arts administrator, theater director, and writer, Betsy has spent the last 20 years advocating for emerging and underserved voices in the arts. Most recently, she served as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in Media, Arts and Culture overseeing a national portfolio on indigenous and place-based arts organizations and cultural communities. Prior to that, she was the Director of Public Programs for the Pequot Museum, the country’s largest tribal museum and research center.

Zakeia joins The Opportunity Agenda as an Executive and Administrative Assistant. With a background in marketing and event planning, Zakeia’s experience has given her the ability to view emerging concepts from various perspectives. Raised in Harlem, New York and later moved to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Morris Brown College, Zakeia continued her studies at Georgia State University, where she earned a degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing; and later completed her Master in Business Administration from Ashford University.